Top 100 Too Busy Sayings
#1. Aubrey - "Apparently she wears a black leather catsuit and a golden mask."
Irene - "Any details on the mask?"
Aubrey - "I think people are usually too busy looking at the black leather catsuit.
Genevieve Cogman
#2. I don't have time to worry about the things that could happen. I am too busy thinking of all the happy things that have happened.
Luke Jensen
#3. I'm too busy having fun to be mean and nasty.
Jason Giambi
#4. Hard to save anybody when you're locked up, when you're too busy trying to fight to save yourself. When you've made yourself a prisoner.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#5. Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
Craig Groeschel
#6. He reminded me of all the questions I asked God years ago when God was too busy to answer.
Try asking God. I think it helps especially if you have problems talking to adults.
Juanita Ray
#7. In the forest, they did things to drive us mad. Muti. Drugs. Rape. Killing Games. ( ... ) God is not in the forest. Maybe He is too busy looking after sports teams or worrying about teenagers having sex before marriage. I think they take up a lot of His time.
Lauren Beukes
#8. He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Other
E. M. Bounds
#9. Good friendships are like breakfast. You think you're too busy to eat breakfast, but then you find yourself exhausted and cranky halfway through the day, and discover that your attempt to save time totally backfired.
Shauna Niequist
#10. Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.
Mignon McLaughlin
#11. I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.
Patrick Rothfuss
#12. We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
Stephen Covey
#13. Hello George. Hey Martha (Percy) Did you bring us a rat? (George) George, stop it!He's busy! (Martha) Too busy for rats? That's just sad. (George)
Rick Riordan
#14. Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.
Bill Hybels
#15. If you are 'too busy' most of the time, or locked behind closed doors, no mentoring relationship can work.
Martin Zwilling
#16. I've been with certain stars; some are caring and pay attention to their fans and to their fellow performers and some are too busy. Elvis never seemed too busy.
Minnie Pearl
#17. If you're too busy being angry at the world, don't be surprised when the world returns serve.
Tony Curl
#18. A word of friendly advice could have saved him, but dear me, I was too busy watching him unravel to think of it until it was far too late.
Jonathan Stroud
#19. Conned any other women out of their valuables lately ?" she says quietly, so quietly that only he will hear it.
"Nope. I've been too busy stealing handbags and seducing the vulnerable."
Her head shoots up and his eyes lock on hers. He is, she sees with some shock, as furious as she is.
Jojo Moyes
#20. I always say, I'm a woman, I can't change my sex. I can't get angry about it. I'm too busy desperately trying to get my movies made. It's hard work. There are no short cuts. If there were, I would have found them by now.
Ruba Nadda
#22. That Islam you see on TV does not represent me,
I'm too busy waging jihad against myself,
My own nafs are my enemy.
I'm sorry that Muslim and Muslim lands do not represent Islam,
Our religion is perfect, but we on the other hand ...
Boonaa Mohammed
#23. Are you too busy for improvement? Frequently, I am rebuffed by people who say they are too busy and have no time for such activities. I make it a point to respond by telling people, look, you'll stop being busy either when you die or when the company goes bankrupt.
Shigeo Shingo
#24. In a way, it was the beginning of something I'd long feared: that vampires would become part of the popular culture. That people would be too busy worshiping them or imitating them or even laughing at them - and forget to fear them.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#25. The real reason Jews don't have more Hanukkah music is that, historically, American Jewish singer-songwriters were too busy making Christmas music. 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,' 'Silver Bells' and 'The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting)' were all written by Jews.
Matisyahu
#26. Henson had never spoken to me about Kermit, but he had spoken to Frank Oz about the idea of me doing the character if he became too busy. I felt flattered.
Steve Whitmire
#27. If one person "wastes" away his day by spending hours connecting with God, and the other person believes he is too busy or has better things to do than worship the Creator and Sustainer, who is the crazy one?
Francis Chan
#28. Beside the road cows are lazily chewing grass. They show zero interest in the runners. They're too busy eating grass to care about all these whimsical people and their nonsensical activities. And for their part the runners don't have the leisure to pay attention to what the cows are up to, either.
Haruki Murakami
#29. Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet Yet is not a prophet, for he's much too busy, Repeats while he binds his tomatoes: No other end of the world will there be, No other end of the world will there be.
Czeslaw Milosz
#30. As for worrying about what other people might think - forget it. They aren't concerned about yours. They're too busy worrying about what you and other people think of theirs.
Michael LeBoeuf
#31. People are not very pro-active in general, I think, because we are too busy rushing blindly towards our own goals.
Dave Matthews
#32. His stubble was thick and not groomed. He was not a man who forgot to shave that day or had been too busy to do so for a couple. It had been weeks. Though it was not a full grown beard. I
Kristen Ashley
#33. The superior man does not mind being in office; all he minds about is whether he has qualities that entitle him to office. He does not mind failing to get recognition; he is too busy doing the things that entitle him to recognition.
Confucius
#34. I'm too busy putting my energies into my performance to be a diva.
Shirley Bassey
#35. But I didn't how to worry, because if there was one thing I had figured out about girls, it was that pretty soon they would give up trashing each other. They'd be too busy trashing me.
Kami Garcia
#36. -[ ... ]what did the bearded queen have to say?
-Her Grace can provide no help.
-Too busy plucking out her chin hairs, is she?
George R R Martin
#37. She's always busy, too busy, and is always reminding herself of this fact, so that the notion of an empty apartment, even an empty bed, holds no more than faint flush of alarm. And only when she thinks about it ... She'll manage, though. She knows she will.
Carol Shields
#38. Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
Nathan Kirsh
#40. I am too busy with my cause to hate too absorbed in something bigger than myself. I have no time to quarrel, no time for regrets and no man can force me to stoop low enough to hate him.
Lawrence James
#41. Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.
Frank A. Clark
#42. [...] people too busy leading their lives to worry about extending their life expectancy.
Neal Stephenson
#43. When there is no one to teach you life will show you. All you have to do is pay attention.
People unfortunately rarely take the time to sit back and evaluate. Their too busy being busy.
Therone Shellman
#44. Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.
Pearl S. Buck
#45. Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got great grades and Carl got the kind of grades I did. I failed everything. I was too busy fighting and running wild.
Dennis Wilson
#46. When men start affording more rights to women, maybe we'll be nicer to the ones we don't like. But for now, I know that I myself am too busy trying to preserve my rights and faculties to take care of a man's fragile ego.
Leanna Renee Hieber
#47. Your shoes aren't nearly as valuable as the experiences you've missed out on because you were too busy keeping them clean.
Dallas Clayton
#48. I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.
Lydia Lunch
#49. People who have "their own issues" often don't stand back and look at the big picture- they're too busy orchestrating their own issues.
Laura Schlessinger
#51. I built the windmill 30 years ago in Tefen, and I think it was the right thing to build at that time, and I don't think that we did much with the solar or with windmills. Not much was done. I think we were too busy.
Stef Wertheimer
#52. Never become too busy for your brother or your sister. For when your parents die, it is your hearts alone that will realize how the joys and pains of family have shaped your lives.
Laura Ramirez
#53. The secret of a happy life is to do work you enjoy and then you'll be too busy to know whether you're happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
#54. When you are on the erg your mind is too busy to pay attention to the sounds of the machine; you notice only that they are indeed loud.
Barry S. Strauss
#55. The fatted calf, the best Scotch, the hoedown could all have been his too, any time he asked for them except that he never thought to ask for them because he was too busy trying cheerlessly and religiously to earn them.
Frederick Buechner
#56. The parental units take no notice of me as I make my leave. They are too busy having a discussion.
Cecil Castellucci
#57. During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected.
Everett Dirksen
#58. If I can't be personal, I don't want to argue," said his hostess categorically. "I may be missing your points, but you're much too busy dodging mine.
Dorothy Dunnett
#59. Most people are too busy to rethink the way they think - or to even spend much time thinking at all.
Steven D. Levitt
#61. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
William Faulkner
#62. It's hard to feel smart when you're always forgetting things, but Mama Shannon says that's how you can tell a smart person. They're too busy thinking about Big Ideas to worry about little details like tying their shoes or remembering their homework" -Fella
Sarah Dooley
#63. There is magic everywhere around you, but most people are too busy being grownup to notice it.
Sassafras Lowrey
#64. According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.
Jeff Miller
#65. Richard's bookshelves weren't alphabetized. He never had time to alphabetize them. He was always too busy- looking for books he couldn't find.
Martin Amis
#66. The simple fact is that the World is too busy to give the Holy Spirit a chance to enter in.
William Barclay
#67. Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.
James Lipton
#68. Day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute, God wants us to talk to Him. But are we too busy in our daily lives to speak some words to Him? God reaches out and speaks to us in many various ways. But are we hearing them?
Kcat Yarza
#69. Ya called Fargo yet?"
"No, I've been too busy trying to destroy the Guild and corrupt Simon's soul. Being evil is a full-time job.
Jana Oliver
#70. Woe to the generation of sons who find their censers empty of the rich incense of prayer, whose fathers have been too busy or too unbelieving to pray, and perils inexpressible and consequences untold are their unhappy heritage.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#71. Gradually, the anxiety gives way to contemplation, and I start to listen to my soul. It has been longing to speak to me, but I'm always too busy.
Paulo Coelho
#72. You can't right the wrongs because you'll never understand the cause and you'll be too busy dodging the effect.
Henry Rollins
#73. The yeehaw explanation is we're too busy chasing meat'n'pussy.
Glen Duncan
#74. The stupid boy has the nerve to laugh. I sit up and punch him in the gut. Stupid boy ain't laughing now. Now he's too busy grunting in pain.
April Brookshire
#75. He foll0wed her as she crossed to the four-station apparatus. His attention was glued to her butt the whole way. realizing what he was doing, he snapped his gaze away and checked to make sure no one had noticed.
Nope. They were all too busy staring at Jamie's butt.
Sarah Mayberry
#76. I'm not being condescending, I'm too busy thinking about far more important things you wouldn't understand.
Jimmy Carr
#77. Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#78. His gaze fell to her lips then lingered on her neck.
"As you so invitingly put it, I'd be too busy chewing on people."
~Kerestyan
Jennifer Turner
#79. Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy.
Kenneth Grahame
#80. It's too bad I'm not a flirt. When I'm on the sets, I'm too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.
Randeep Hooda
#82. Personally, I had a great education. My mum was a trained teacher, a Montessori teacher, and I know that I could not have written 'Eragon' if I had gone into a public school system because I would have just been too busy attending classes and doing homework - I wouldn't have had the time to write.
Christopher Paolini
#83. Beautiful' is bullshit, a standard created to make women into good consumers, too busy wallowing in self-loathing to notice that we're second-class citizens.
Jessica Valenti
#84. I don't have time to read popular fiction. I'm too busy with work.' Secretaries, he thought acidly, read that junk, at home in bed at night. It stimulates them. Instead of the real thing. Which they're afraid of. But of course really crave.
Philip K. Dick
#85. If you're not too busy this evening, why don't you bring your soft shoes and your pads over to officers' row and we'll go waltzing Matilda? Say about eight o'clock." "Yes, sir." "That's not an order, that's an invitation. If you really are slowing down,
Robert A. Heinlein
#86. So you were talking crap about me? Hm. I missed it. I was too busy being fabulous.
Dan Pearce
#87. Jek is too busy living. She won't waste time on regrets.
Robin Hobb
#88. Without electrons, there is no Google. And without clean electrons, there will be no Google customers, since we'll all be too busy fleeing from rising seas, droughts, and disease.
Jeff Goodell
#89. (M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect ... you know ... like being people.
Toni Cade Bambara
#90. You're too busy caring for everyone else to care for youself.
Jay Crownover
#91. I grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, with no money. I was taught not to take anything for granted. If you are too busy being a diva or a freak, then you are not enjoying it.
Lucy Liu
#92. I'm too busy for relationships.
Rita Ora
#93. He who didn't succeed at his own dreams, was too busy listening to another's failures.
Nikki Rowe
#95. I guess you just don't pay attention. I think you're too busy attempting to fade.
Rebecca Donovan
#96. I'm too busy playing to worry about the movement or the fingerboard.
Terry Kath
#97. Problem with an old friend who is too busy:
he always perceives you as if never changed.
Toba Beta
#98. But London didn't care, she never does when you leave her because she knows for every one that leaves another two arrive. Besides, she was too busy painting on her neon lipstick and dolling herself up in red and gold.
Ben Aaronovitch
#99. I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.
Pierre Trudeau
#100. Your problem is not that you are too busy; your problem is that you don't own your situation.
Rory Vaden
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